Keystonewoodturners.com Website Review

elections were in november! tim kravatz is our new vp and gary johnson is our new treasurer thanks again to our out-going officers, danielle barbour and bob zrebiec who have both given stellar service.. the december meeting will be our anual christmas party, no show and tell, raffle or demo. just food, friends and of course, our gift. ornaments are in! i cant wait to see the decorated tree! the tree these are all for will be lit on fri. dec 7 at 3:00 pm. you can view the trees friday until 9 pm and saturday 10 am until 2 pm you can buy tickets to win our tree or any other that you choose. drawing on saturday at 2 pm. the colonial pennsylvania plantation,  a non-profit historical organization near newtown square, to whom the club has offered help in the past, had a 250 year sycamore tree fall during the last storm.  the fallen tree has prevented safe access to the plantation entrance and resulted in the closing the site for several weeks.   in addition to the loss of revenue,  the substantial tree removal cost has severely strained their budget and their director has asked if the keystone woodturners could help in some way.  the plantation would like to offer bowls we’ve made from the wood of this historic tree to twenty or so of their largest donors as they solicit funds from the community to help cover the costs of the tree’s removal. use your imagination,  bowl, hollow form, vase, or box the plantation will use our donations in some form to off set the cost of the tree removal.   your turned sycamore items will be due april 2019. with the approval of the keystone woodturners’ board, it’s been decided that we will provide turned bowls from the fallen tree as a presidents challenge for the spring of 2019.  the wood, in the form of pre-split logs, will be distributed at the next two meetings and our members, we hope, will rough-turn the wood, allow it to dry, and finish-turn in late spring.  the bowls will be collected at a spring